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65,000 animals worth QR81.25m sacrificed 08 Oct 2014 - 03:27 am

DOHA: Some 65,000 animals worth QR81.25m, each with an average price of QR1,250, were sacrificed during the four days of Eid Al Adha,...

Visitors find it hard to access free Internet in public parks 08 Oct 2014 - 03:26 am

DOHA: Several visitors to public parks say accessing free Internet is often not easy. They claim that free wireless Internet connections at parks...

Safe driving urged as condolences pour in for Filipino victims 08 Oct 2014 - 03:26 am

DOHA: While condolences poured in on social media yesterday over the death of five Filipinos, including a one-year-old, in a car accident, many...

Emergency Department receives 1,400 cases 08 Oct 2014 - 03:25 am

DOHA: The Emergency Department at Hamad General Hospital (HGH) yesterday treated 10 people injured in minor road accidents. The department also received several...

Ministry urges beach-goers to comply with safety rules 08 Oct 2014 - 03:25 am

DOHA: The Ministry of Interior has asked beach-goers and those riding sea scooters to comply with sea safety rules. The ministry posted on...

Workers’ remittances at QR40.6bn in 2013 08 Oct 2014 - 03:18 am

DOHA: Workers’ remittances totalled a huge QR40.6bn ($11.15bn) in 2013, up 8.3 percent over the previous year, official data suggest. There were 1.4...

Hairgate: iPhone hit by new social media storm 08 Oct 2014 - 03:17 am

A woman holds an iPhone 6 Plus after it went on sale at the Apple store in Sydney FRANKFURT: First there was bendgate......

Yemen names new PM, Houthis reject move 08 Oct 2014 - 03:05 am

Yemeni politician Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak SANA’A: Yemen’s president appointed a new prime minister yesterday as part of a deal with Shia Muslim...

UAE urged to come clean on detained Qataris 08 Oct 2014 - 02:57 am

Youssef Al Mulla and Hamad Ali Al Hammadi DOHA: An Arab human rights body based in the UK has urged the UAE to...

Fireworks at Katara 08 Oct 2014 - 02:56 am

People watching fireworks at Katara as part of Eid Al Adha celebrations yesterday. Kammutty VP

Doha-based Filipino family among 5 killed in crash 08 Oct 2014 - 02:38 am

BY RAYNALD C RIVERA DOHA: An entire family of three was among the five Filipinos who perished in a freaky car accident on...

LED inventors win Nobel 08 Oct 2014 - 02:35 am

Japanese-born US citizen Shuji Nakamura holds a blue LED light at a news conference at the University of California Santa Barbara in Isla...

EARTH DIGGING GLOBE ENVIRONMENT CLIMATE MINING 08 Oct 2014 - 01:22 am

Group: BusinessViews Credit: AMMER Source: Wiener Zeitung - Vienna, Austria Keywords: COLOR EARTH DIGGING GLOBE ENVIRONMENT CLIMATE MINING 100314 Provider: CartoonArts International /...

HK protest leaders agree to talks 08 Oct 2014 - 12:54 am

Activists continue to shut down parts of downtown Hong Kong yesterday as the government and pro-democracy protesters have laid down a framework for...

Nepal marks Eid Al Adha 08 Oct 2014 - 12:51 am

Nepalese Muslims offer Eid Al Adha morning prayers at the Kashmiri Mosque in Kathmandu yesterday.

North, South Korean boats exchange fire 08 Oct 2014 - 12:49 am

SEOUL: North and South Korean naval patrol boats briefly exchanged warning fire yesterday near their disputed Yellow Sea border which has been the...

Philippine rice self-sufficiency target delayed 08 Oct 2014 - 12:48 am

MANILA: The Philippines has pushed back its 2013 target to attain self-sufficiency in rice production by another two years, an official said yesterday,...

Strong quake hits China’s Yunnan province 08 Oct 2014 - 12:47 am

HONG KONG: A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit southwest China’s mountainous Yunnan province late yesterday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake struck...